Origin of the name PTOLEMY EPIPHANES.
Etymology of the
name PTOLEMY EPIPHANES.
Meaning of the baby name PTOLEMY EPIPHANES.

PTOLEMY EPIPHANES.Ptolemy
(V.) Epiphanes. The son of Ptolemy Philopater, whom he succeeded
when only five years of age, B.C. 205. His accession to the throne
was followed by a fearful riot in Alexandria, which resulted in the death
of Agathocles, the prime minister, and Agathoclea the mistress, of the
late king, together with all their adherents. Taking advantage of
his youth, and the troubled condition of Egypt, Antiochus, king of Syria,
and Philip V., king of Macedon, endeavoured to dismember the empire of
Egypt; but the Egyptian ministers applied to the Roman Senate for aid, and
by their assistance the enemies were repulsed, B.C. 202, and Marcus
Lepidus sent as governor to Egypt over King Ptolemy. In B.C. 198
however, Antiochus conquered Coele-Syria, and Palestine, and by the advice
of the Roman Senate Ptolemy was declared of age, and crowned at Memphis,
B.C. 197, soon after which the famous decree, now known by the name of the
Rosetta Stone, was set up in his honour by the Egyptian clergy.
Peace was then concluded between the kings of Syria and Egypt, and Ptolemy
married Cleopatra, the daughter of Antiochus, receiving Palestine and
Coele-Syria as her dowry. He assisted the Romans still in their war
with his father-in-law, and entered into the Achaean League, B.C.
187. Finding the colonies of Egypt nearly all fallen off, except
Cyprus and Cyrene, he planned an attack upon Coele-Syria, which was only
nominally in his power; but having no resources wherewith to pay his army,
and his friends being apprehensive that he would make a levy upon them, he
was assassinated by poison, B.C. 181. His name merely occurs on a
few temples in Egypt, and he does not appear to have executed any great
works, or to have restored, or even repaired, any of the national edifices. (An Archaic
Dictionary, Cooper, 1876).